Moral Argument Critcisms
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- Moral argument Criticisms
- Cardinal Newman
- Our moral conscience is evidence of God's existence.
- We feel responsibly, ashamed and frightened of transgressing the voice of conscience, this implies there is one to whom we are responsible
- Our moral conscience is evidence of God's existence.
- Aquinas
- Goodness exists and it takes their reality from higher things that are "noble, true and good" this being is God
- Owen
- "It is impossible to think of a command without a commander"
- The existence of objective moral law suggests that there must be a divine law-giver who wrote them. Command do not write themselves, they are either brute facts or they have an author
- "It is impossible to think of a command without a commander"
- J.L.Mackie
- Supports The biological, sociological and psychologicalexplanations for morality
- Freud
- Tripartite mind is reasonable as we do have primal instincts and societal rules
- Therefore there is no need for a God since our morality can be explained by the tripartite mind
- Religion is an obsessional neurosis
- Tripartite mind is reasonable as we do have primal instincts and societal rules
- Kant
- The world is fair and we have autonomy
- The world is fair and if we carry out out duty we will reach the Summum Bonum
- "We experience awe from the starry skies and moral law within"
- The highest good May not be achieved in this life despite doing one's duty, therefore it is achieved in the next life. Our souls are immortal
- The world is fair and we have autonomy
- Cardinal Newman
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